Weegee by Weegee at Sala Sabadell Herrero in Oviedo

In the convulsed New York of the 30s and 40s, Weegee was a freelance photojournalist who published in all the major newspapers and turned crime into a spectacle.
Always alert, he had in his car a radio tuned with the frequency of the police that allowed him to arrive first at the crime scene. His technique, of hard backlighting, gave the photos an aura of truthfulness and drama that continues to impact the viewer.

The exhibition WEEGEE BY WEEGEE. Collection M. + M. Auer , brings together more than one hundred vintage photographs of one of the best collections in the world, M. + M. Auer from Switzerland, carefully selected and vertebrated from Weegee's books and publications in press.

After Foto Colectania, the exhibition Weegee by Weegee now travels to Oviedo.

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Education

The Collserola Foundation and Foto Colectania have established a Collaboration Agreement, with the aim of bringing together different teams to carry out programs that take the thought around image and photography as an axis, enhancing their communicative capacity and the suitability to generate critical thinking.

Event

In this activity, prior to the public opening, Michel and Michèle Auer, considered one of the most important photograph collectors in the world, will talk about Weegee, his collection and the creation of the first great Encyclopedia dedicated to photographers, whose Project led them to interview the best international photographers.

Exhibition

The exhibition brings together over one hundred photographs from one of the best photography collections in the world, M. + M. Auer from Switzerland, in a careful selection structured around Weegee's books and press publications.